Word: dickstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have had a hard time breaking up a Sunday School picnic, was merely exhorted to mend his ways, and sent home. As for larger game, Dies explained that if he treated Father Coughlin or Reverend Gerald Smith harshly, he might be accused of being anti-religious. When Representative Dickstein demanded angrily why the committee didn't investigate the America First group, Dies remarked blandly that he had no evidence that the Firsters were engaged in subversive activities...
When the House of Representatives set up a special committee to investigate subversive propaganda, in May of 1938, about the only complaint came from Fritz Kuhn, leader of the rambunctious German-American Bund. Kuhn charged that the man who mid-wived the new group, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, was engaged in unfair persecution of the Bund. Indeed, Dickstein had been attacking the Bund furiously. It was his idea that a small body of Representatives peering into "un-American activities" would scorch and harry Nazi and Fascist propagandists in the United States, and if Dickstein had been appointed chairman...
...Martin Dies--not Dickstein--who was picked to head the new committee. The gentleman from Texas, who coyly termed himself "president of the House Demagogues Club," assumed his responsibilities in no uncertain fashion. During the next seven years, he kept himself splattered over the front pages, got into ruckuses with everybody from Walter Winchell to Mrs. Roosevelt, and set a pattern of conduct followed faithfully by his successors...
...exposures of radicalism and New Dcalism were hardly the sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...
...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...